the u.s. pledges a switch to a supporting position in afghanistan by spring with the military possibly maintaining that role long past the twenty four thousand withdrawal date. france sans its military to mali to drive out all qaeda linked militants that have already gained control of vast areas of the west african country. and made in the u.k. local clothes manufacturers call on the prime minister and top brass to buy british .

watching are they going to live from moscow nine am in the russian capital a marina josh welcome to the program president obama says that u.s. forces will and most combat operations in afghanistan by spring and switch to a support role that's the outcome of a meeting between the president and afghan leader hamid karzai in what's thought to be the final chapter of america's military presence in the country but as artie's granted she can now reports the u.s. troops could remain in afghanistan well beyond two thousand and fourteen. during his election campaign president obama may have sounded very resolute to leave afghanistan in two thousand and fourteen but the white house is now negotiating terms to stay there the president said if u.s. forces stayed their role will be different but critics argue it's an attempt to regroup and a military presence which both the majority of americans and afghans oppose my solution to a president obama said about the mission after twenty fourteen i think. you know

although obviously we're still. two years when. i can say with assurance that this is a very different mission and different task and a very different footprint for the u.s. if we're able to come to an appropriate agreement as you know one of the key points of the agreement that the president mentioned there that key point probably is immunity from prosecution for u.s. troops so that the afghans cannot prosecute any american soldier if they commit a crime that's the deal that the white house couldn't get from the iraqi government the u.s. wanted to keep some troops there but couldn't because of how vehemently opposed the iraqis were to allowing the u.s. to further operate there with impunity but with homemade karzai it could be different he indicated that he is willing to give that immunity and that he's willing to bourg it besides he knows that he's in power because of the americans and many experts believe his government will collapse in no time after americans leave but whatever post twenty fourteen deal comes out of their negotiations it

might not be easy for washington to sell it to the american people because despite the administration trying to present of ghana stand as a success story in many ways they see it as a failure and don't understand why their troops should stay any further policymakers in washington can't really come out and say that they don't want to walk away and just just pack up and leave from such an important geopolitical position now that they've spent billions and billions of dollars to have a presence there but such chill political calculations may not sound very appealing to the american people at a time when the country's head over heels in debt despite pledges that u.s. troops in afghanistan will switch to a mainly support role phyllis bennis from washington based institute for policy studies believes it's still a long way off before local forces will take full control. we're talking about an official acknowledgement by the two governments that now the afghan military is in

control what that means is anybody's guess but what it does not mean is that the u.s. troops are going to be pulled out early there's a huge occupation force in the country that's not going to be brought out in twenty thirteen in the spring what we're talking about is a claim that as of that time the afghan people the afghan military the afghan government will officially be in charge they will be in charge of the military now the idea that the u.s. forces still there or the nato forces still there are going to take their orders from the afghan military i think is rather spurious that's certainly not going to happen i don't think the afghan government has the capacity to survive without massive u.s. support that means both economic support and crucially military support but his reliance on that support leads to one massive corruption which is widely hated throughout the country karzai has very little public support in the country and militarily his his very large army isn't capable of standing up to the other

militias it's one more militia the government militia called the afghan national army but it's essentially one more militia and without the u.s. backing it has very little possibility of standing up to the other competing militias who are vying for influence power territory access to resources all those things throughout the country so he's in a very very difficult position where massive public demand is on the rise urging that he get the u.s. troops out because there's massive resentment of the u.s. for its drone raids its killing of civilians the the kill or capture raids throughout the country all of that that has continued for these eleven years at the same time he knows that if he does that the u.s. leaving will leave his government and his own position in a very and in a very precarious moment and he may well not survive that politically. and just to have for us president barack obama promises a u.s.

troop withdrawal from afghanistan twenty fourteen. the reason we're over here is because they're wonderful. it's all about money. artie's resident asks people on the streets of new york what they think about america's mission and the country. president francois hollande confirmed that french military intervention in mali will go on as long as necessary as paris joins afterwards to drive adl qaeda linked militants from the country the un has also agreed to accelerate the deployment of an african led force with rebels making key advances in the area jetstar burke senior avatar of executive intelligence review says the crisis in mali is a result of the collapse of the khadafi regime something which france itself helped instigate. there's definitely an element of falling back on an old colonial controller molly was given its independence in one thousand nine hundred sixty but

is still part of the francophone region of africa the rebel operations in northern mali have existed for quite some time but it was only in the aftermath of the overthrow. gadhafi government in libya which was promoted by france britain and the united states in particular really double crossing china and russia at the u.n. security council for regime change it was only after that that you had a massive flow of weapons out of libya into the hands of the rebels which basically took a low intensity conflict and threw it into a much greater crisis where the rebels outgunned the mali an army and so suddenly as the result of one badly flawed regime change policy in libya we have instability spreading to many

parts of the african continent and beyond so it's a kind of a supreme irony that the french are being asked to come in and clean up a mess that they themselves helped create bombs have been detonated near the homes of five great journalists from the country's major media outlets causing minor damage but no injuries and his group has claimed responsibility for an explosion saying they are protesting the way the crippling economic crisis is being reported studious a contributor to greek newspaper believes the journalists are caught between a rock and a hard place. it was a man message to media and also to some journalists just to change the way that they show the news about the economy crisis nobody was expecting that we will have nearly five years of this economy crisis and maybe we'll have more five years or

ten years everybody is nervous also the government side also people will have to be careful about what the way that we have but it presenting so as you're going to understand it's not really easy way to be a journalist and this video is for only one way you have the government from the other way you have the honor of his group and the third way is the people in this is so of course as a media worker i don't like these attacks and also i'm afraid because you never know what will happen next day in front of your home facing a domestic threat while the us is waging wars there are threatening issues at home to be addressed. crumbling infrastructure and deteriorating transit systems we find out how vulnerable america has become more and that it's coming in just a few minutes here. easier said than done britain's m.p.'s are urged to dress in only what's been made in the u.k.

we'll bring you the report from london later. israeli prime minister benjamin netanyahu has said stopping iran from building nuclear weapons will be his stop or a already if you wins and the upcoming election despite tehran denying the allegations it's viewed as a major threat in israel and is our policy here now reports many israelis are already preparing for war. mushroom clouds confusion hysteria this is israel's last day according to a young filmmaker who wants to shock his country into taking action i have created this morning to share my thoughts and my fears with the world about the potential threat that is coming from iran if you ask me the same question two years ago i will say that people don't think about it so much but today it is different we can see that the majority here of israel are preparing this so i think most

mentally grandparents are holocaust survivors from a mania a foreshadow he fears of what could come it took hitler six serious to kill six million jews and it will take a where all is six minutes that's why and maybe some or many israelis are already uneasy fearing iran might be building a nuclear bomb and tehran isn't mincing its words threatening tel aviv it will teach it a listen if it tries to attack first warning is we need missiles will make sure israel does not survive the center of israel is a problem and that's where we have to move forward not only that we haven't got enough voters it's very very populated so everything that is falling in this area can cause casualties in two thousand and six during the second lebanon war rachel balmer oars and her family hit here from the katyusha rockets raining down from

across the border she never imagined she'd be restocking her shelter again so soon and for potentially more deadly consequences of course i'm afraid from the war from within iran because nobody wants war and peace. and now i have also some rain children five grandchildren and i'm afraid i'm afraid because my cells will go to the army and there are soldiers in the air i don't want it the recent war with gaza was a chance for tel aviv to test its iron dome missile defense system but these raids are anxious in part because of widespread media coverage of just how unprepared for war the country has many bomb shelters and residential buildings are rundown and neglected or have become furniture storage rooms while most of israel's arab citizens about a twenty percent of the population lack shelters altogether as the chances of war

start looking all too real the army says four times as many israelis are collecting state funded gas masks then they were several months ago i am a big concern it's not like i think they're going to be a war. just. the side my fear just in case and with impending doomsday predictions circling the country no one wants to be caught unprepared police fear our t.v. television. the u.n. an arab league peace and voice for syria says there can be no military solution to the conflict meeting with top diplomats from moscow and washington has reiterated the need for more diplomacy to the violence this as some for the country's back call for the u.n. to refer the situation in syria to the international criminal court a move to open the way for war crimes prosecutions when with the security council to consider the appeal later meanwhile syrian activists say islamic militants have

seized a strategic air base in the north capturing ammunition and military equipment washington is weighing how to secure syria's chemical weapons that could fall into the hands of extremists u.s. and middle east experts also say the country's uranium stockpiles could be a risk reports claim damascus has up to fifty tons of un enrich uranium but little analyst on marna xabi says western states brazil and only one side of the conflict . there's a lot of noise about that there was a bombing in two thousand and seven the israeli jets bombed the site in syria claiming that it is a nuclear site there was no indication yes the i.a.e.a. visited the site the i.a.e.a. said that there were traces of fuel rain your depleted uranium but they did not confirm that there was any quantity or at least you know this huge quantity that is being published i mean they're saying fifty tons of uranium this is this is i don't know where they come up with the number. i did some research and it appears that

they came up with a number because they. are coming up with the story that this site that was there that was bombed in two thousand and seven would actually require fifty tons that doesn't mean that the syrians actually have fifty tons and that doesn't mean that the site is actually for a nuclear program the city and central government was able to control more than. six months there's an advance of the syrian army and the syrian official police and their control. in most of the country there are only some areas in the country where rebel fighters in some areas in the countryside where the syrian army withdrew from these areas because they thought that these areas were not important strategically but overall central government under the leadership of president assad controls most of the syrian territory obviously it's difficult because there are many fighters infiltrating from outside city or there are many a lot of money being infiltrated being pumped into syria to these rebel groups by

a neighboring country especially by by turkey by qatar by other european and by the united states there is a sponsorship of these terror groups our online team is working twenty four seven to provide you with the latest stories and pictures on our website here are some of them. public health emergencies sparked in the u.s. as a country is gripped by the deadliest flu outbreak in a decade killing more than a dozen people and leaving thousands struggling to fight off the u.s. . line and with his recently granted russian passport enhanced french actor gerard depardieu gets another invitation this time to join the country's communist party. severe weather is becoming the new norm for the u.s. that's according to a draft of the country's national climate assessment released on friday with a flickering electrical grid crumbling roads and bridges and america's infrastructure appears unprepared for what mother nature can throw at it for now

reports now on what's being done to address the problem. over the past decade america has spent hundreds of billions in the name of national security wars military intervention fighting terrorist and hunting online hackers meantime getting much less attention is a domestic danger lurking in and lighting up every corner of the country the u.s. power grid in recent months federal officials have warned that america's electric cables substations and transformers are not sufficiently secured and are vulnerable to attack by anyone with a weapon and some basic know how experts say the energy grid is also outdated and antiquated unable to prevent outages from cascading in october superstorm sandy hit twenty four states causing some sixty three billion dollars in damage more than

four and a half million people lost power and new york was left crippled by massive floods leaving much of the city including half of the big apple plunged into darkness two months after the storm the streets of downtown manhattan remain clogged with tubes wires and heavy equipment because dozens of the city's iconic skyscrapers still rely on generators for power things like this. nature building. that does not occur in hong kong shanghai. because they have built systems designed to deal with the reality of nature. that is this kind corners. hosen you know most of you reckon economy when it comes to america's electricity ninety percent of the grid is privately owned by utility companies beholden to investors. energy sector. is law actually.

and. ask for. only by regulation own the federal government meant that law it regulation to state local governments though it possible to haul our grids to gather that he is saying there are many reasons not only financial but also policy reasons really changes have to. if we want to change our safety. livelihood the changes aren't just limited to the grid engineers have warned that many of america's bridges roads dams levees and power plants are in danger of crumbling if not repaired especially as sea levels

continue rising even one bomb was nothing compared to what hurricane sandy did across the northeast a thousand miles of destruction it was a very very big natural event. and you know to have congress not funding the. repair of the basic industry infrastructure. is just staggeringly shortsighted a broken foundation that risks the chance of becoming the nation's biggest homegrown danger marina portnoy r.t. new york. and coming up later in the program indigenous fury canada's native bill promised to be early disrupt the economy unless a controversial bill is thrown out. which in our view is now take a look at some other stories from around the world in pakistan leaders of the shia minority have refused to bury the bodies of more than one hundred victims killed in

series of terrorist bombings on thursday the shia leaders are protesting over a lack of security in the country three days of mourning were declared following the attacks among the deadliest carried out by sunni extremist shia muslims are men already in pakistan and have been the target of a recent surge in violence. or no i rioting has again hit the city of belfast in northern ireland a bus was torched him police used rubber bullets and water cannons trying to spurs the crowds at least four officers were injured in a clash loyalist dozens of roads during rush hour causing traffic disruptions throwing missiles and petrol bombs tension has been boiling for more than a month after the city council decided to fly the union flag in front of city hall for only eighteen days in the year. around ten thousand people have protested in slovenia as capital of the they are demanding the country's prime minister and opposition leader resign after an official board accuse them of corruption police

used tear gas water cannons to disperse the grounds dressed as zombies who try to break through the parliament to the parliament building away as delegations of graft have awakened previous anger at that spread across the media in the vampyr. u.k. clothing manufacturers are calling on the prime minister and cabinet to buy british they say the industry needs a boost amid growing tension between firm selling big new firms selling real u.k. made clothes and those just using the union jack as a label as. appears hard to find an elf it's not made overseas it's got the british flag on it but all of the clothes made in britain a quick look at the label shows they're not made in china made in vietnam anywhere but here and down on the high streets the stories no different you'd be hard pushed

to find anything with a made in britain label on it in any shop a recent survey by a daily mail journalist found just one item in sixty three with a british made label but now david cameron and his ministers are being urged to back british from their hats to their socks and wear only british made clothes it's not impossible there are companies that still make clothes in the u.k. including the firm that's doing the urging private whites b.c. but the vast majority of what we were ninety percent at the last count and including everything i'm wearing today is made abroad since two thousand and fifty two percent has jobs in the textile industry have disappeared and we imported twelve and a half billion pounds worth more clothing than we export it last year even some companies that trade on their very britishness don't manufacture here so even if

david cameron and his colleagues did pledge only to buy british it's unlikely to revive britain's a leg textile industry and indigenous idle no more movement is gaining steam in canada has promised to disrupt the country's economy unless the prime minister resends a law which the native people say erodes they are rides and remove protection of their land and apparent researcher and rider and are given marshall says indigenous people are increasingly falling. in canada we have essentially what amounts to an apartheid system in how we treat the indigenous population they have in their communities less access to water food insecurity poverty rates are enormous bill c forty five was the spark for this protest will see forty five change to our so-called protection. in the environment rivers lakes of canada's becoming essentially the world's number one corporate colony our prime minister

he's opening up canada to unhindered corporate plundering of the environment and resources and indigenous peoples are at the front lines of that because their communities are hit first and their head hard so they may be facing the final stages of a five hundred year genocide so there i don't know more but it's not only a declaration it's an invitation for the rest of canadians and for the rest of the world to also become i don't know more or less as a u.s. vows to switch to a supporting role in afghanistan and the spraying our teams very all resident to the streets of new york to find out what people think about america's long lasting operation there. the obama administration has recently said that it's considering having no troops

in afghanistan after december of two thousand and fourteen is that a good thing a bad day or a totally made up thing designed for political shenanigans this week let's talk about that do you think he's going to do it he said that two years ago and it didn't happen so i don't buy it so why does he keep saying it if he doesn't mean it . to get people like us and their families will be happy with hopefully you know you finish what you started what did we start and what do we have to finish what is finishing mean. to capture or. do you think that we've defined what the end means it's tough because you know we don't know everything i think we need to have a world presence to maintain the market and why is it up to us to maintain a well presence why don't we just get out of everyone's business well that's a good idea too but if no if we don't do it nobody will and otherwise the world's going to go to war and we were in his stabilizing factor and until now and time

it's been us but we're the ones causing all the wars. depends on your perspective i guess i'm sort board more defending than attacking but don't you think that there are some people in the world that feel like america imposes its will on their countries yes but america's will lose its freedom and democracy at its heart it's not a fanatical you don't think it's its own might be money and imperialism a little bit too i don't believe that it is imperialism. and what about money do you think that money might drive some of our reasons for home of course but money is going to help everybody i don't think it's happening i i just came back from afghanistan so oh so you don't believe he's really going to pull the troops away. entirely i think that i think that there our presence there is important and therefore sustaining what we've done so far my opinion is that the reason we are over there is because of the wonderful oil and i don't have it's all about money

and. that's a marina. doesn't that make you mad and makes me really upset because we have a lot of marines that are dying each and every day in afghanistan you know and you know for god's sakes i can be next you know so it does make me pretty upset that he's promising something that he's not owning up to the bottom line is we're so used to having u.s. troops all over the world up in everyone's business that we probably can't imagine us pulling out of anywhere and that makes americans the world's bullies whether we like it or not. after the break our jihads northern russia were diving in the arctic circle is gaining a rapid popularity. over

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